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email delivery Read Weblogsky via email:itinerary EFF-Austin Cyberdawg Social, November 2003. Austin: Wireless Future, ongoing project / meetings; conference (March 12-16) SXSW Interactive, Austin (March 12-16) Polycot Polycot helps organizations determine how to build and use effective web technologies to solve problems, build loyalty, share knowledge, and organize projects. For more information, email consult at weblogsky.com, or check out the Polycot Consulting web site. projects CEO, Polycot Consulting. Polycot is a network services company: network consulting, installation and administration, as well as web solutions (architecture and development). Member of the blog team at Another World (worldchanging.com) Co-Founder of the Austin Wireless City Project Manager of the Wireless Future Project for IC² Institute Associated with Rheingold and Associates, Online Social Networking Moderator and co-administrator at the Dean Issues Forum Writer of various interviews, reviews, essays, and articles. President of EFF-Austin Member, Board of Directors, Austin Freenet Local advisor for South by Southwest Interactive Steering Committee Member and Webmaster, Austin Clean Energy Initiative Member of the blog team for Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs weblog. Cohost of The WELL's Inkwell.vue, discussions and interviews. Webmaestro for Viridian Design Co-instigator of Austin Bloggers Member of Mindjack's Board of Advisors. links worth traveling weblogsky archives Email jonl at weblogsky.com 
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Friday, August 31, 2001
Commercial Alert critiques media manifestations of capitalism... its mission statement: Commercial Alert's mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy.Whether you agree with 'em or not, or perhaps agree with 'em but so what, don't spoil the fun, it's worth bouncing around the site. Do on a Saturday morning, after you've watched cartoons! Link Friday, August 24, 2001 Genesis P-Orridge's Last Museum. Current exhibitions: "The Devil Made Me Do It" by Carl Abrahamsson, and "Erotic Mail Art Collages of the 70s by Genesis P-O. Link Thursday, August 23, 2001 AOL announces job cuts. "We fundamentally believe the first chapter of the Internet is over." Thanks to Owen Thomas, hombre de ditherati. Link Friday, August 17, 2001 Microsoft lost its appeal to delay further antitrust proceedings 'til the company does its thing with the Supremes. (Negotiations for the purchase of the Supreme Court, and perhaps the U.S. government, are currently under way... ) Link More detail about the demise of the print version of Industry Standard in this CNet piece by Troy Wolverton. Fortunately the web site will still be operating, but with reduced staff. The Standard had become one of the finest business publications on the racks, but the unfortunate demise of its advertiser base in the dotcom shakeout, along with expenditures to make the magazine IPO-ready, undermined its financial viability. Link Thursday, August 16, 2001 "Shocking news" - Industry Standard Suspends Publication. Link Wednesday, August 15, 2001 Yours truly wrote a brief review of Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish for Whole Earth Magazine. It's just been posted at the Whole Earth web site. Link Sunday, August 12, 2001 Chimeras... jump-start evolution. Link Tuesday, August 07, 2001 Much more interesting than human cloning: the truth about Bat Boy! Link A critique of Microsoft's "Shared Source" licensing from an Open Source perspective. Link Paul Boutin's great myth-busting guide to search engine optimization. When I tell people that keyword metatags are really not the solution they think it is, they look at me a little funny, like I'd been living on Mars. Now I'll point 'em here. "The best strategy is to design your site to be crawled and ranked well from the start, rather than tacking on keyword-laden gateway pages and shadow domains after the fact. " Link Sunday, August 05, 2001 Wes Basel compares the "dumb" Internet with "smart" telecom networks, in "The Death of the Internet As We Know It." His conclusion: the open Internet is fading, to be replaced by a Microsoft dominated network that supports application delivery. Link Saturday, August 04, 2001 Data suggesting the existence of life on Mars may have been "misfiled": NASA scoured its archives and turned up the long-neglected computer tapes, only to discover they were coded "in a format so old that the programmers who knew it had died," Miller said.Link Thursday, August 02, 2001 Oops! Palm Beach County in Florida didn't think to back up those troublesome presidential election files, so there's not record of the vote. Link Wednesday, August 01, 2001 Andrew Leonard of Salon on the demise of the World Birthday Web and the current state of the web... Psychologically speaking, the excitement shared in the early days of the Net made everyone feel, regardless of their age, like a young pioneer in a gloriously undiscovered country. This excitement was different in quality from that experienced during the greed-driven dot-com boom. It was a glee generated by the realization that something truly amazing was happening.Link  |
interviews Interview with David Weinberger for SXSW Interactive Conference's Tech Report Discussion with Bruce Sterling at The WELL, January 3 - 17, 2003. Jon L. interview for South by Southwest Interactive conference's Tech Report. Jon L. interviewed by Adam Powell (5/13/2002) jonl interviewed by R. U. Sirius (A version of this interview appeared in The Austin Chronicle) Conversation with Bruce Sterling at the WELL's Inkwell.vue Forum Interview with R.U. Sirius at CTHEORY interview conducted by Yoshihiro Kaneda in conjunction with the publication in Japan, in the book CyberRevolution, the essay "Inforeal." interview with Allucquere Rosanne Stone. No Stone Untenured: May '98 Interview with Sandy Stone Bruce Sterling interview for bOING bOING #9 The Tedium is the Message, Assholes: Interview (for AltX) with R.U. Sirius and St. Jude Don't Believe the Hype (Austin Digerati Roundtable published January 28) Why We Listen to What They Say: Interview with Doug Rushkoff Interviews with Projecting the 21st Century: An Interview with Gary Chapman Information Junkie, an interview with Reva Basch (Researching Online for Dummies) Wired to Virtual Reality: Interview with Howard Rheingold Interview with Carla Sinclair, author of Signal to Noise Making Movies on Cyber Location: an interview with director Doug Block (Austin Chronicle, February 1998) Untangling the Web: interview with Gene Crick of MAIN and Sue Beckwith of Austin Freenet reviews Review of Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish, in Whole Earth Magazine. review in HotWired of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Cyber Top Ten for 1997 (Austin Chronicle, December 1997) essays
What Happened to the Cyber Revolution? A Few Points about Online Activism in the March '99 issue of the UK journal Cybersociology ZapSpace, published as A Fistful of DOS in the Australian magazine 21C The Cyborganic Path from the April '97 issue of CMC Magazine Essay: Are We a Nation? We Are Devo in The Ethical Spectacle. articles Little Nemo in Slumberland (bOING bOING, February 1998) Technopolitics, a 1997 essay on cyberactivism originally appearing in the Australian magazine 21C. Your 15 Minutes Are Up, Mr. Gates!1998 Top Nine List from the Austin Chronicle! Dungeons and Draggin's: a look at the Ultima Online phenomenon "We Do Cool Things": a profile of Austin's George Sanger, aka The Fatman, and Team Fat The Opera Ain't Over 'til the Cyber Lady Sings: Honoria in Ciberspazio (Austin Chronicle, November 1997) Shout Spamalam! The Austin Spam Suit Who Are You? Who Owns You? A consideration of Amazon's privacy policy. Amicus Brief filed with Supreme Court regarding the "Communications Decency Act" 11.25.96 Freewheelin' in Austin 1.7.97 Cyberdawgs and CyberRights: EFF-Austin 2.25.97 VR in 3Space: Brian Park 1.28.97 Going Native in Cyberspace: Bob Anderson 3.25.97 A Parisian Spring in Austin: Joseph Rowe and Catherine Braslavsky 4.22.97 On a Rock and Roll Firetruck: Shawn Phillips  |
